As you said you wanted feedback I'll just say that the animation during the jumps over gaps needs improving, maybe the ball could appear to bounce higher to make the gap instead of hovering across at whatever level the ball was already at. Otherwise, that's a very enjoyable puzzle game there. Well done.

David

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I will take your word for it that it looks unnatural if the ball bounces on each square. Maybe it would not look so bad if the ball moved a little faster and appeared to be a little smaller?

Alternatively the animation could very briefly come to rest on the floor of the jump launch pad, then a new animation showing the ball launched higher, appearing to get even bigger as it crossed the gap. The animation could include an initial slight shrinking of the ball as if compressed prior to launch. It would act as if the ball had dropped into the barrel of a cannon that then fired it across the gap. An explosive sound effect could go with it.

Another alternative would be the ball bounces once on the spot on the jump launch pad like it does on the final square, but appearing to bounce higher than normal before bouncing even higher across the gap, the bigger the gap, the higher it has to bounce.

The downside to both these ideas is that would interrupt the smooth flowing movement of the bouncing ball.

David

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I did have an issue when playing on my home PC instead of my laptop, whereby I could not see the mouse pointer. The only way I could fix this was change the compatibility settings and 'Disable display scaling on high DPI settings' This gave me back the mouse pointer but the game was quite small on my monitor.

David

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My desktop PC is running Windows 10, on a 1920 x 1080 resolution monitor, with 'Change the size of text, apps and other items' set to 125% in Display settings. When I get my new 4K monitor that will be set even higher.

Have you tested how well your game scales up on monitors running at higher resolution / DPI ?

David

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